Wellbeing Lead

About Us

At Catholic Schools Broken Bay, our Vision is to provide ‘Authentic, professional Catholic education, delivered with care and compassion’. The Vision underpins our exciting and robust Towards 2025 Strategy which places students at the centre of everything we do, and which brings schools and parishes together to work as one. The Towards 2025 Strategy commits our system of schools to being at least as good as the very best, to maximise the learning growth of every student, and to inspire hearts and minds to know Christ and love learning.

Covering an expansive geographical area which includes the Central Coast, Sydney’s Northern Beaches and North Shore, Catholic Schools Broken Bay is a system serving 45 Catholic Schools with around 17,000 students from Kindergarten to Year 12.

About the Role

The role of the Wellbeing Lead is to lead and manage a team of Wellbeing Learning Partners to provide expert professional advice and consultation support to Broken Bay systemic school leadership teams, that builds their capacity to support students with complex behaviour, social emotional, and mental health difficulties.

The role supports the CSBB System to implement evidence-based practices that maximise student wellbeing and learning outcomes across all schools. This role is accountable for the design and delivery of system wide policies, guidelines, and practices in the area of student wellbeing.

In addition, this role will partner cross functionally to provide strategic project and program management for all initiatives that have key impact areas within Student wellbeing.

This is a permanent, full-time role based at our office in Pennant Hills. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides subject matter expertise and professional judgement in case management support to school leadership teams that supports students with complex behaviour or mental health difficulties that can pose significant risk.
• Provides advice on cognitive, emotional, and behavioural assessments, mental health screeners, and referrals to and liaison with outside agencies.
• Provide people leadership for members of the wellbeing team.
• Collaborates with school leaders, counsellors, Teachers, and Safeguarding professionals to appropriately mitigate and manage child safeguarding concerns.
• Provides expert advice and support to school leaders following serious incidents.
• Provides targeted professional learning and coaching to contribute to building the capacity of school staff in supporting and managing student mental health, behaviour, and wellbeing.
• Coaches and supports school leaders and teachers in the application and implementation of wellbeing related whole school frameworks.

About You

• Supportive of, or can demonstrate an understanding and commitment to, the ethos of the Catholic faith in an educational context. 
• Strong working understanding of current research and practice in the field of children and adolescent mental health, wellbeing, and education 
• Knowledge of legislation pertaining to school student management (e.g. Disability Discrimination Act, Disability Standards for Education, Child Protection, Part 5A of the Education Act 1990) 
• Highly skilled professional with experience in counselling children and young people using evidence-based interventions or has held a pastoral care/wellbeing role in a school.
• Previous experience in leading mental health and wellbeing professionals 
• Can assist with school enrolment and transition support of students with complex behaviour and/or mental health difficulties. 
• Evidence of effectively leading a successful improvement initiative that improved client/student outcomes. 
• Experience in using evidence and data analysis to inform best practice initiatives. 
• Can demonstrate professional standards in alliance to registration boards and associations such as Australian Psychological Society (if relevant) 
• Experience in the administration of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural assessments and mental health screeners (if relevant) 

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualification in Psychology or relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent work experience
• Membership of APS or AASW (if relevant)
• Valid Working with Children Check
• Current and valid NSW Driver’s Licence

Benefits of Working with Us

• Competitive salary on offer
• Free onsite parking or public transport close by
• 25% School Fee Discount for eligible employees
• Annual leave loading and ex-gratia leave at Christmas time
• Salary Packaging for eligible employees

Application Process

Applications should include:

• A cover letter of no more than two pages addressing why you are interested in the role and addressing the criteria listed above.
• A current resume.

Applications should be sent directly to careers@dbb.catholic.edu.au

Applications Close on Monday, April 22, 2024.

Enquiries

If you have any enquiries about this role, please email Cassandra at careers@dbb.catholic.edu.au

Agencies, please note that unsolicited resumes for this position will not be considered.

Catholic Schools Broken Bay promotes a culture of safety and care for children and young people. The Diocesan Office for Safeguarding Charter provides overarching principles that ensure children and young people are at the centre of the work we do and that every child and young person is encouraged to have a voice and participate in their community to their fullest potential. All employees must be aware of the Diocesan Office for Safeguarding Charter and be committed to organisational child safe standards and practice. Successful applicants for child-related roles must meet the requirements of the Working with Children Check.